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According to Mr.Dipak Chowdhury, head of Corning’s ultra-flexiblethin-glass project, innovations with every passing day and what willow glass revealed is astounding as it could be the base of your next smar...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – While many Oglala Sioux residents living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation had heard about an outbreak of hantavirus in the Navajo Nation in 1993, they weren't worried about the dise...

(Reuters) - Two people in Utah have died following exposure to hantavirus, a rare but deadly disease of the lungs spread by rodents, health officials said on Tuesday. The fatalities, the first from the v...

All residents of the Bulgarian village of Gorno Alexandrovo have been urged to leave their homes over the incident in which an ammunition depot exploded near the city of Sliven in Southeastern Bulgaria Tu...

(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he will boost military cooperation with China, including holding more joint exercises, after the United States announced plans to shift most o...

(CNN) -- Reality-show subject Amber Portwood, whose legal troubles began on MTV's "Teen Mom" show, will be in an Indiana prison for the next two years or more. Madison County, Indiana, Circuit Judge Davi...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- As the euro crisis moves toward a decisive moment, the European Central Bank is under renewed pressure to stabilize the troubled currency union. "The euro area seems to be edging c...

(Financial Times) -- The presidents of Russia and China laid out ambitious plans on Tuesday to tie their countries into a closer strategic and economic partnership as both Beijing and Moscow seek to use e...

Berlin (CNN) -- What appeared to be a human hand and foot were sent separately to two area schools, Vancouver police said Tuesday. The first package, containing what was thought to be a hand, was deliver...

(CNN) -- China has called on foreign embassies in the country to refrain from publishing their own air pollution readings, in the latest expression of discontent over what it perceives as foreign interfer...

(CNN) -- Will the future of the eurozone be decided at thousands of ATMs across the continent? That may be a stretch, but Spaniards and Greeks are withdrawing billions of euros from their bank accounts an...

I only heard some brief headlines about the security staff left to 'sleep under a bridge' and assumed from that that they had been left overnight to sleep under a bridge. This would have been totally wrong...

About 400 homes are sitting between a wall of water and the ocean as five swollen rivers fill Victoria's Gippsland Lakes. But authorities expect sandbagging by the army, residents and emergency crews wil...

Moody's Investors Service cut the credit ratings of six German banking groups and Austria's three largest banks on Wednesday, saying they face risks if the euro zone crisis deepens. The downgrades are par...

At least 23 people have been killed and dozens more wounded due to a suicide motorcycle bomb in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar. One suicide bomber detonated his motorbike filled with explosive...

Health officials in Edinburgh have said it could take until the weekend before the extent of the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease is known. Dr Duncan McCormick, chair of NHS Lothian's incident man...

Police officers were astonished to find a gas can strapped to a child safety seat, while an unrestrained toddler sat beside it, during a recent traffic stop. The photo taken by a suburban Denver police o...

A new generation of computerised 'Big Brother’ cameras are able to spot if you are a terrorist or a criminal - before you even commit a crime. The devices are installed in places like train stations or pu...

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck GUERRERO, MEXICO at a depth of 42.3 km (26.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:15:47 UTC Wednesday 6th June 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) East from Petatlán, Guerr...

The U.S. has terminated funding for a $20 million project to develop a Pakistani version of Sesame Street, the U.S. Embassy said on Tuesday. The decision came as a Pakistani newspaper reported allegations...

A Peruvian court has ruled that convicted murderer Joran van der Sloot will be extradited to the U.S. to face trial allegedly linking him to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Not before, however, he...

Unexplained: Mrs Mockbee had worked in the HR department at biotechnology company ThermoFisher for 16 years A mother-of-two who was murdered at her workplace was buried today as police continued to say l...

A former Chicago resident who is charged with rape, murder and kidnapping has been added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Fidel Urbina, 37, has been the subj...

A teacher was shot dead at his wife's birthday party by an angry neighbour who gunned him and two guests down in an argument over loud music. Kelly Danaher was shot by veteran Raul Rodriguez - who insists...

﻿yes, this is pattern HEX 542Dear Mr Wifi Stalker, I got your second dream, about HEX 542 (image shown) though I have no idea what any of the rest of this post means. I'm in some bar, some guy shows me so...

Source of picture and for more information on natural pesticides: http://www.squidoo.com/natural-pesticide-spraysNatural Pesticides for Gardens By Susan Belsinger and Tina Marie Wilcox Food Freedom News...

Police now believe that the human skull that some Los Angeles boy scouts discovered along the side of a lake was used for a religious ritual. An investigation that started in January after the child-sized...

Mexican police have found seven dismembered bodies in a Pacific coast state where the country's most-wanted man is battling its most aggressive drug cartel. The Attorney General's Office says the bodies ...

Officials fear that the missing family of five who was experiencing emotional and financial hardships were the victims whose bodies were found in a burnt car ditched in the Arizona desert. Though police ...

An 'overzealous' car park warden stuck ten parking tickets on a car parked in a hospital's disabled bay as the owner was undergoing emergency surgery. The tickets were slapped all over the red Mini by the...

A school bus driver in Carmel, Indiana, was caught on tape being thrown out of his seat after failing to buckle up and losing control of the vehicle while navigating a bumpy turn. The driver, 73-year-o...

Two teenage girls died today after the car they were in was struck by train while it was parked in the middle of railroad tracks during a deadly game called Ghost Train. The Missouri State Highway Patrol...

The collapse in value of Facebook shares after the company's disastrous flotation on the stock market might be a sign of worse things to come. One senior investment analyst predicts that the firm will col...

Russian climber and BASE jumper Valery Rozov recently added another highlight to his incredible career in extreme sports by setting a new world record with a jump from the top of Shivling, a 6543m mountai...

Public protests turned into violent pitch battles on the streets of Kiev today, as angry Ukrainian clashed with riot police over a proposed change in the official language of the country. With just three...

Mississippi executed a man on Tuesday for the 1990 murders of four of his young nieces and nephews, with the state's governor rejecting heart-wrenching pleas for a reprieve from the mothers of the childre...

The horrifying moment a skateboarder was plowed into by a truck was caught on camera by a friend filming one of his stunts. Serges Murphy survived the collision which saw him thrown down the street after ...

Proposals designed to stop taxpayers' money being used to bail out failed banks will be unveiled by the European Commission later. They aim to ensure losses are borne by bank shareholders and creditors and...

Residents in townships along the Gippsland Lakes are being told to prepare for possible flooding tonight. The Gippsland Lakes are swelling as floodwaters pour down Gippsland's rivers into the lake system...

In Villacanas you can still find row upon row of factories stamped with the word "Puertas." But many of the factory "puertas" are locked shut. This little industrial town in La Mancha used to make nearly...

Scottish health authorities are urgently trying to find the source of a Legionnaires' disease outbreak that has left one man dead and 15 other people critically ill in hospital. The health board of NHS ...

Skywatchers gazed in awe as Venus passed in front of the Sun - an event that won't be seen again for another 105 years. The transit of Venus began shortly after 10pm GMT in cloud-free areas of North Ame...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the MOLUCCA SEA at a depth of 48 km (29.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:17:31 UTC Wednesday 6th June 2012 The epicenter was 194 km (120.4 miles) South of Tidore, Molucca...

You may find many copies of the following sentence on TRF but here we go again: The most interesting hep-ph preprint on the arXiv today is the first one: Supersymmetry in the shadow of photini The author...

There are a number of thunder bird sightings out there and they continue to confound mostly. Again, the reports are terribly local with startled witnesses who are never properly debriefed. These witnesse...

The take home, which no one wants to hear is that a forest is best when it is a blend of multiple species. Humanity wants an orchard but this is risky. We overcome that risk by short life spans and ample...

What this tells us is that the heat content of the crust declines to a tipping point were the natural sinks no longer rapidly sponge up all available oxygen. One can safely presume life processes were l...

This identifies an additional risk for heavy drinking and a predisposition to cardiac arrhythmias that was not previously clear. Of course heavy drinking has its own risks and needs to be guarded against...

so, yadda yadda yadda, last night, the BBC got THREE WOMEN SCIENTISTS (for some reason (oh, yes VENUS (I get it (now))) to talk about the Transit of Venus across the face of the sun. Anyway, I was expec...

Perfesser Dave, left, with W. L. “Willy” Mackenzie King, centre, and Pat, right. Some Canadian prime ministers are exactly as illustrated. Below: Several shots of Willy and Pat. Some stories are just to...

An elderly British gentleman of 90 arrives in Paris by plane. At the French immigration desk he took a few moments to locate his passport in his hand-luggage. "You 'ave been to France before, Monsieur?" t...

A homeless man high on drugs and drunk on Four Loko growled and tried to bite off a police officer’s hand after he was arrested for disturbing customers in a Miami fast food restaurant. The incident come...

The former leader of Norway's equivalent of the English Defence League has told the trial of Anders Behring Breivik that there are around 100 people who share his extremist political views - ans some supp...

A couple of weeks ago I reported on a dismissive *New York Times* account of the irradiation of people in the Marshall Islands. I'll include the majority of that post at the bottom of this one. Today, I ...

Fukushima Diary is Reporting 4,800 Bq/Kg of iodine 131 was measured in Tokyo http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/06/4800-bqkg-of-iodine-131-was-measured-in-tokyo/ That means re-criticality at Fukushima or one ...

Singer/songwriter David Rovics on Rag Radio, Friday, June 1, 2012. Video produced and edited by Jeff Zavala and filmed by Grace Alfar of ZGraphix at the KOOP studios in Austin. Rag Radio: Singer/Songwriter ...

European leaders are edging closer to a federal union in response to the financial crisis engulfing the Continent. In crisis talks yesterday, Britain and the US joined forces to urge Germany to create a c...

The Olympic torchbearers were supposed to be 8,000 unsung heroes with heartening stories to ‘inspire a generation’. But yesterday it emerged that some of the coveted places have been handed out by sponso...

BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The White House has confirmed the death of al Qaida's second-in-command, Abu Yahya al Libi in Pakistan. It said that he played a critical role in the group's planning against...

The case of a Canadian porn actor suspected of cutting up and eating his ex-lover has taken a new twist after packages containing a foot and hand arrived at two schools. Police said they could not immedi...

After over a century of opposition from conservatives here in the U.S.-- and many centuries of opposition worldwide to political equality for women-- Congress passed the 19th Amendment that gave women the...

Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. Want an easy way to keep up w...

Washington has pressured the Philippines, whose government it owns, into conducting joint military exercises in the South China Sea. Washington’s excuse is that China has territorial disputes with the Phi...

The moneyed version of the American Dream has been perverted, but "Occupy Empire" efforts can hopefully keep the best version of another American Dream of democratic self-government, liberty, equality, ju...

With the 45th anniversary of the Six-Day War of June 1967 coming early next month, With the 45th anniversary of the Six-Day War of June 1967 coming early next month, pro-Israel pundits like syndicated col...

The TSA has been shown to be one of those evil metastasizing bureaucracies that are as abusive as they are ineffective in carrying out their supposed duties. Stories of abuse of airline passengers, terr...

A one-sided justice sees weaker states punished as rich nations and giant corporations project their power across the world The conviction of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, is said to ha...

On Friday, India's Foreign Ministry voiced its country's position on the territorial conflict between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea, and called upon both parties to exercise restraint a...

In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst we look at the Q1 2012 ratings for the US banking industry. The first quarter of 2012 was the best reporting period for all US banks since the start of the ...

The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's warning about the possibility of outbreak of "full-blown wars" with the use of nuclear weapons in the current global security scenario can be seen as a timely ...

A heartfelt thanks to all of you who, in these dog days of summer, contributed $100 or more for a personalized, signed copy of Christian Parenti’s cutting-edge new book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change an...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the SOLOMON ISLANDS at a depth of 33.3 km (20.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:24:47 UTC Wednesday 6th June 2012 The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) WSW of Kira Kira, San ...

The first problem is that one of the two bugs they left on a phone didn't work. The second problem...oh, where to start? They're really not very well set up to turn their bug into useful campaign intellige...

*NOT SAFE FOR WORK* *NOT SAFE TO LISTEN TO IN FRONT OF CHILDREN* *ADULT ONLY CONTENT!* This is where I am tonight. BUT - tomorrow I will again believe that we ARE smart enough! Please note that by playi...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION at a depth of 71.3 km (44.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:08:16 UTC Tuesday 5th June 2012 The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) NNE of B...

“Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, the star factory known as Messier 17 lies some 5,500 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation Sagittarius. At that distance, this degree wide field of vi...

Finally felt well enough to keep a long delayed dinner date tonight. Came home to reports of a massive voter turnout in Wisconsin. Record busting lines at the polls. Ballots running out. People staying in ...

One of the subjects of this blog is the revelation that one of man's "greatest achievements", the so called Apollo man on the moon missions between 1968-1972 are nothing but a massive lie. The simple fac...

*"Counting the Costs of War"* by Eric Pomeroy "Nothing is more firmly burned into my mind than the images from hours upon hours spent counseling soldiers and listening to servicemen and servicewomen ...

Last week, when I introduced my family's change to clean eating, I received a lot of positive feedback and even more questions about how to go about it doing it. Perhaps the biggest obstacle in many peopl...

As readers may remember, I wrote a few days ago about the obscenity laws in Canada. Sex with horror or violence can be obscene -- mere horror or violence cannot be obscene. Now the video on bestgore.com ...

*Dark clouds are gathering worldwide, especially over cinemas. * "We are living through times where evil has manifested itself with an almost revelation-like obtrusiveness and power. We have learned t...

*No, I'm sorry to say that can't have you a clip of Jackie (Edie Falco) dealing with 87-year-old Mrs. Zimberg, whom we may remember as the Popsicle Lady (Lynn Cohen).* *"We are so thrilled with the series...

We've had less than a half hour of sunshine all day. But it cleared a bit, and I ran outside. Here on the left is a small telescope which we've had for about forty years. On the right is the Sun projected...

. . *By MARC MCDONALD* Welcome to another edition of Progressive Music Classics. Today's selection is Lou Reed's heartbreaking "The Day John Kennedy Died," which appeared on Reed's 1982 masterpiece album...

*PER GAB* *If your site runs out of ballots, you may ask them to make a photocopy* *& use that to vote.* *They CAN'T turn you away!* *Polls close at 8:00pm central time AND All across Wisconsin* *If you a...

Storms come slowly here. This is my first rainy season in a tropical country, and it's taken me a while to understand that there's no need to hurry if you find yourself outside when the clouds start buil...

*Polls close at 8:00pm central time AND All across Wisconsin* *If you are in line to vote at 7:59pm central time * *- You will be allowed to vote. * *VOTE* FB page from unitewomen.org: "From Wisconsin El...

Yes, it's an election day, and you all know that I love an election day. Sorry I didn't get to post anything here about it, but I did a roundup over at Greg's place. Lots and lots of California primaries t...

Christopher Husbands, 23, is facing one charge of first-degree murder and six counts of attempted murder after the Saturday shooting at the Eaton's Centre in downtown Toronto. The shooting killed a fellow ...

*"Photographic Evidence of Bullet Hole in JFK * *Limousine Windshield 'Hiding in Plain Sight'"* by Douglas P. Horne "In 2009, I believed I had discovered new evidence in the JFK assassination never re...

[image: abortion.jpg] Another day, another RWNJ politician in the US shares fond memories of ... New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith, [...] who just received the Henry J. Hyde award for Americans United for Life ...

I was lucky enough to sneak into the dress rehearsal for *Rigoletto* last night at the Aotea Centre, and I have just one word for you: “Wow!” ‘Rigoletto’ by NZ Opera If you can beg, borrow, steal or ev...

"The only human beings I have thoroughly admired and respected in the world have been those who carried the load of the world with a smile, and who, in the face of anxieties that would have knocked me c...

Ragin' Obama: The right-wing view. Obama’s 'rage' and other fairy tales When I think of Barack Obama, I never think rage. I have raged against him on more than one occasion, but Obama never rages back. In f...

Today for a mild deviation from the norm I'd like to share some of my favorite online sites and their current concerns (which we all share). I'll be back tomorrow with more riveting reporting on the con ar...

*"Canada Bracing for Massive Influx of Wisconsin Boat People"* Coast Guard on Alert by Andy Borowitz OTTAWA (The Borowitz Report) – "The Canadian coast guard was on alert today, preparing for what i...

I don’t understand Hekia Parata. If you’re going to pick a fight with teachers, teachers unions and parents—and there’s nothing wrong with that at all—then why do it for change as nugatory as “class siz...

Jamelle Bouie is in a sour mood as he reads recent polling analyses: This isn’t an original thought, but the current environment makes the question much more salient—is it possible to have a multicultural ...

Watch the CBS-TV report above that insinuates-- especially for a passive viewer-- that Democratic SuperPACs run by unions are just doing the same thing Republican SuperPACs run by a handful of dangerous,...

Just a continuing proof that BIG government is wrong, is also the continuing debt and financial turmoil in Europe. Of course, the same heavy debt burden is also experienced in North America, Japan and othe...

It seems that some movies are besieged by unimaginably awful luck, almost unending misery and terrible, terrible events. No, we're not talking about the back catalogue of Rob Schneider, we're talking abou...

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of HONSHU, JAPAN at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:31:34 UTC Tuesday 5th June 2012 The epicenter was 78 km (48.3 miles) East of...

The internet spell checkers caught yet another typo in Romney campaign material. I'm with the commenter who suggests this is a cheap and cynical ploy to get more attention to the sites. If they were spell...

by Jim Horn and Anonymous Knoxvillian The Broad Agenda for Tennessee public schools was crippled last evening when Knox County Commissioners rejected the McIntyre school budget increase to fund a meritle...

A crime linked to Facebook is reported to police every 40 minutes. Last year, officers logged 12,300 alleged offences involving the vastly popular social networking site. Facebook was referenced in inves...

A user has found a 'huge asteroid' while scanning the virtual heavens using Googly Sky. Youtube user planetkrejci, who has investigated other anomalies on NASA pictures, claims the object - found using t...

Mother of two Irina Gaidamachuk dubbed 'Satan in a Skirt', posed as a social worker to gain entry to the flats of her victims. After securing their trust, the 41-year-old killed them by smashing their sk...

The key factor which separated man from our evolutionary rivals 100,000 years ago may not have been language - but instead a mysterious plague. The plague ravaged populations of early humans in Africa, un...

From Truthdig.com:Posted on Jun 3, 2012 By Chris Hedges I gave a talk last week at Canada’s Wilfrid Laurier University to the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Many in the audience had pinn...

If you thought vampires were simply the stuff of myth and legend - and perhaps the odd teen horror film - think again. Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed two skeletons from the Middle Ages pierced...

One man has died and 16 people are in a critical condition in hospital after an outbreak of legionnaires' disease. A further 15 suspected cases are being investigated in Edinburgh, NHS Lothian said. The ...

Eurozone member Cyprus conceded on Tuesday that there is a serious possibility it may need an EU bailout to save its banking system, which is heavily exposed to Greek debt. “The possibility of addressing...

*First of all, the BASIS of these Republican "voter id" laws and "voter purges" of LEGAL VOTERS is based on the FALSE talking point that there is WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD...and there is NOT. That is a LIE. *...

*"Ten Things You Must Do, Update 2012"* by Karl Denninger "If you have been following The Market Ticker since 2007, or even just for the last couple of years, you’ve heard the following sermon points tim...

Today is the Wisconsin recall vote. The social nets are reporting record turnouts since early this morning. The Democratic voters in my world are out in force, working hard to prove the polls showing Walke...

People who watch carefully, lost faith in EMILY'S List, once a trusted component of the progressive coalition, long ago. In their rush to endorse conservatives they wound up going too far in 2008, pushin...

"My name is Amr El Masry, I love Israel. I love Israel. I love Israel. I love Israel. May it be destroyed. May it be colonized. May it be destroyed. May it be colonized. May it be wiped off the map. May...

Bihar health department today admitted that 20 children have died and 36 others are undergoing treatment for a "mysterious" disease in Gaya and Muzaffarpur districts in Bihar during the past fortnight, but...

The Pentagon has announced a replacement for the U.S. General in charge of Special Operations in Korea a week after controversy broke over comments he made on North Korea. Brigadier General Neil Tolley w...

*Seredy v. RBC Royal Bank of Canada,* 2012 ONCA 377 is a defamation case dealing with non-suit. It stands for the proposition that, when considering a non-suit, the court must take all the evidence led...

Washington (CNN) -- You do not have to be an investor in the stock market or real estate or looking for a job to be alarmed when several highly regarded observers warn that the United States economy is ab...

Japan is in a double-bind. If it re-starts a reactor, it faces more nuclear peril because reactors may have sustained undetected damage in last year's quakes or they may be damaged by new quakes given the...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Spain's Treasury minister appealed to European leaders for financial support Tuesday, saying the country's credit markets are seizing up. The yield on Spain's 10-year bond has been...

(CNN) -- How big is the financial hole? This is the main question among Spaniards nowadays. They want to know how much money Bankia, the country's fourth-largest bank, needs. Bankia was created in 2010, ...

(Reuters) - The number of people killed in two earthquakes that struck northern Italy in May rose to 25 on Tuesday, as aftershocks continued to spread fear among residents in the area. The latest victim ...

(Reuters) - Kofi Annan hints his peace plan for Syria is going nowhere, but divided world powers have yet to agree on other ideas for halting the carnage or coaxing President Bashar al-Assad into talks on...

Josef Ackermann, the former Deutsche Bank (DBK) AG chief, said joint debt sales would force Germany to assume the funding burden and would take pressure off other euro-area nations to implement changes as...

HERE'S THE FIRST LOOK AT THE DDG-1000 ZUMWALT. It's a major part of the USN's answer to the Chinese navy's growth in Asian waters. It's a littoral vessel, designed for coastal patrols. Like everything these ...

Getting back to Syria. And there is much to get back to, so, we may as well get started. Warning: lengthy update. China-Russia on the same page regarding Syria- "Both sides oppose external intervention i...

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